Information Management SIG online DigITea talk session

Description

The Information Management SIG invites you to join us for the next in the series of short online talks from 12:30 until 13:30 on Tuesday 10 February 2026.

Each session will have a focus on a specific topic, and we welcome everyone regardless of their level of pre-existing knowledge.

This session will feature a talk by Stuart Jeffries from Glasgow School of Art giving a talk on Unpath’d Waters, a ground-breaking 3-year research project to unite the UK’s maritime collections.

Digital heritage data and immersive systems, opportunity or barrier?

This presentation will look at some recent academic projects in the heritage domain that have explored the affordances of immersive systems approaches (VR/AR/XR) to meaningful delivery of both heritage datasets and heritage narratives. The talk will discuss projects such as the ‘Digital Laocoon’, looking at conservation and narrative challenges in the wake of the Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building fires and also the recent Historic England led Unpath’d Waters project focused on the enhancement, aggregation and delivery of maritime heritage datasets held across the UK. 

There will be special focus on the Unpath’d Waters objective of reaching new audiences, including immersive system design work which focused on audiences with visual impairments. Finally, this presentation will broadly consider both the audience reception for these delivery modes and, in particular, the same implications for professional practice.

Additional information

This session counts as 1 hour of CPD if it meets objectives on your personal development plan.

This meeting will take place on Teams; the link for the meeting will be sent in the confirmation email.

Event pricing

This event is free for all CIfA members to attend; this includes CIfA Group supporters.

There is a fee of £5 for all non-members of CIfA.

If you are a not a CIfA or Group member you can become a Group Supporter for an annual fee of £15 to attend this and any future digital bitesize CPD and networking event run by the Group for free.

More information about becoming a Group supporter can be found on the Groups webpage or you can submit your details and payment information to join any groups immediately via this form.

If you are a CIfA member or a Group supporter you must be logged into your account to select the member rate price. If you have any issues with booking, please contact groups@archaeologists.net.